The British Journal of Renal Medicine is interested in articles about local green initiatives. I am writing one this week and thought i would base it on waste reduction in delivery of acid concentrate…
Where you live, does everyone with kidney disease know that they've got it and what it means? Are local GPs confident about how to manage them, and who will benefit from referral?
It was inspiring…
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Sector Guidance for Pharmaceutical Products and Medical DevicesA consortium of major global companies has been working with the NHS SDU to agree standards for reporting of…
In October 2011 The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) secured funding at the Pitch Pledge Party event, a 10:10 initiative in partnership with The Funding Network (TFN) and Guardian, for the…
The EDTNA/ERCA 42nd International Conference is inviting abstracts on Green Innovations - pioneering work to reduce the environmental burden of dialysis (closing date 15th February 2013).
The…
Picking up on the workshop run by Charlie Tomson at the Green Nephrology Summit last month on opportunities for primary and secondary prevention in kidney care, I was really glad to…
This Health Estates & Facilities Management Association (HEFMA) article "Wasting Away" gives a nice introduction an RCN report on waste management in the NHS. It identifies some pretty enormous…
Delegates at the Green Nephrology Summit 2012, on 26th September, have issued a call to policy makers and healthcare commissioners to support them in bringing about the transformation to sustainable…
Sharing challenges and solutions, I was one of 350 healthcare delegates from34 countries and 5 continentswho met at CleanMed 2012 in Malmo, Sweden to develop models for sustainable healthcare.
"A…
My wife and I were invited to attend as patients the Green Nephrology Summit 2012. It was well managed and inspiring event. We had international perspective with a delegate from Australia who was…